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No Crystal Stair: A Booklist on the Black Experience Published by The New York Public LibraryNew York, January 9, 2001 -- The New York Public Library is pleased to announce the publication of a new edition of No Crystal Stair: A Booklist on the Black Experience. Selected by a committee of experienced librarians, the well-regarded bibliography has nearly 900 titles by and about African Americans and people of African descent living in the Diaspora. No Crystal Stair significantly expands upon the work begun in 1925 with the publication of The Negro in the United States and continued with No Crystal Stair in 1971 and No Crystal Stair: Still Climbing in 1996.
No Crystal Stair is a representative list of the wealth of materials available not only to the African American community, but to audiences worldwide. From New York City to the Diaspora, from this life to the next, from slavery to freedom, from poetry to history this list offers readers portaits of the black experience that will educate, entertain, and enlighten. No Crystal Stair: A Booklist on the Black Experience can be purchased for $8.00 by mail from the Office of Branch Libraries, The New York Public Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Mail orders must be accompanied by postage ($1.00 for 1 to 5 copies; $1.25 for 6 to 10 copies; and $1.50 for bulk orders). Free copies are available by request at all branch libraries. Press may contact Debbie Bujosa in the Public Relations Office, (212) 221-7676.
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With
subjects as varied as Race, Civil Rights and Politics; Parenting; Poetry;
Health; Traditions; Cooking; Radio and Television; and Spirituality, the
booklist will take the reader on a journey through the diversity of black
life. Learn about traditional Southern recipes and cooking methods from
master chef Edna Lewis in In Pursuit of Flavor. Experience the
daily life of black troops during the Civil War with Army Life in a
Black Regiment, and Other Writings. Tackle tough issues such as out-of-wedlock
births, single-parent families, and childhood poverty in Family Life
in Black America, -- or get step-by-step directions for a variety
of hairstyles with Let’s Talk Hair: Every Black Woman’s Personal Consultation
for Healthy Growing Hair.